Life. Health. Prosperity.

I loathe and detest SPAM. 😠 I get 4 or 5 emails everyday trying to sell me anything from replica Rolex watches, Viagra to making a lot of money from sending my personal details to Mr. Bungalunga who works for a financial institution in Nigeria and wants to give me 3 million US dollars.

Isn't there a moderator in these forums who can delete this [censored] when it appears. Grrrrrr!😠

Btw, have you tried my personal drinks recipe? One glass before doing intervals and I guarantee you, you will experience a 70% improvement in your FTP.
Comes complete with an attached will, and excellent funeral insurance.

A snip at only 400 Roubles per 500ml bottle.

Send cash or cheques to TYSON @ Thanksucker Apartments, 17 Gullible Street, Timbucktoo. Somewhere in Africa.😄

Sillyoldtwit said:

I loathe and detest SPAM. 😠 I get 4 or 5 emails everyday trying to sell me Viagra .........😄

SOT maybe they 2 have heard of your upcomming birthday🙂 & thinking you may need a lift. BTW have a good day🙂

Albert 50 said:

SOT maybe they 2 have heard of your upcomming birthday🙂 & thinking you may need a lift. BTW have a good day🙂

Don't mock the elderly Albert.😄

What's your FTP btw Albert? Way better than mine I guess.

Sillyoldtwit said:

Isn't there a moderator in these forums who can delete this [censored] when it appears. Grrrrrr!😠

i altered the text for fun instead :-)

ric_stern/RST said:

i altered the text for fun instead :-)

I love to see power used wisely. Bravo!

ric_stern/RST said:

i altered the text for fun instead :-)

😄 😄 😄 ROFL - brilliant Ric - far better than just deleting it.😄

I think I'll just read it again.😉

Sillyoldtwit said:

Don't mock the elderly Albert.😄
What's your FTP btw Albert? Way better than mine I guess.

Hi SOT
I'm not mocking the elderly, just slowly joining them. One thing I've noticed as I get older is that I tend to get stiff in the wrong places more often😄 BTW I’m 50
As for FTP [which I think stands for functional threshold power?] wouldn’t have a clue. Other than my bike computer, HRM [with a flat battery at the moment] & riding solo distances varying from 20 to 100 ks on the road I have no other high tech theories or equipment.
My current bike is a flat bar road 30 speed 105 which I got 1/12/05. Have a bad back, 10mm displacement between L5/S1 which gives me s#it sometimes & lessons my ability to ride a good aero position, hence the flat bar. I’m not complaining though, just the way it is.
TDF actually “sparked“ me up. I increased my intensity somewhat during the Tour & presto on one of my regular loops, a 43.5 k ride with 75% being a good, fast hot mix surface, & undulating small hills, I’ve picked up about .5 kph average average [if you know what I mean] & that’s after miniscule improvements before that. I actually did a PB for that ride tother day, 1h 19m @ 33 kph [that’s for your eyes only as some get thingy if you mention your times or averages, but I don’t give a toss]
Sorry about the rave, but I wasn’t sure how to answer your Q
Bye Allen [Albert was an old school nickname]

Albert 50 said:

Hi SOT
I'm not mocking the elderly, just slowly joining them. One thing I've noticed as I get older is that I tend to get stiff in the wrong places more often😄 BTW I’m 50
As for FTP [which I think stands for functional threshold power?] wouldn’t have a clue. Other than my bike computer, HRM [with a flat battery at the moment] & riding solo distances varying from 20 to 100 ks on the road I have no other high tech theories or equipment.
My current bike is a flat bar road 30 speed 105 which I got 1/12/05. Have a bad back, 10mm displacement between L5/S1 which gives me s#it sometimes & lessons my ability to ride a good aero position, hence the flat bar. I’m not complaining though, just the way it is.
TDF actually “sparked“ me up. I increased my intensity somewhat during the Tour & presto on one of my regular loops, a 43.5 k ride with 75% being a good, fast hot mix surface, & undulating small hills, I’ve picked up about .5 kph average average [if you know what I mean] & that’s after miniscule improvements before that. I actually did a PB for that ride tother day, 1h 19m @ 33 kph [that’s for your eyes only as some get thingy if you mention your times or averages, but I don’t give a toss]
Sorry about the rave, but I wasn’t sure how to answer your Q
Bye Allen [Albert was an old school nickname]

Sorry to hear about your back problem, I've had a problem with mine on and off since I was 18 from my powerlifting days. Touch wood though, it has only gone once in the last year or so, laying me up for 3 or 4 days. I stretch my back for 5 mins every morning before I ever get out of bed. (I sleep Japanese style on the floor) More importantly, I do a 15-20 minute stretch post exercise of the legs, back, feet (ankles) shoulders and neck. The only problem I get now is stiff shoulders after a 100 kms or so on the bike, but I'm working on that problem.

33kph average is no mean speed -well done. I never get anywhere near that, but then all my courses have brutal climbs in the Japanese mountains which knocks the old average speed down. Besides I'm somewhat older than you - actually just old enough to be your father.😄

As for declaring figures in the forum, I declare everything except the colour of my underwear, but then that is the purpose of my thread.

Talking about HRMs, when I'm doing my intervals in the gym these days, I cover up the HR indicator because I don't want to know what my HR is. I found that watching it had an adverse affect on my intervals. That is, if my HR went above 153 I used to think, wow I'd better slow down. Now I just blast and be damned. Your heart will let you know when it's had enough - the breathing becomes very laboured, the legs suddenly feel like lead and the brain says, come on, take it easy! RD will probably say it's not your heart that's had enough, it's .................

Enough rabbiting - keep up the good work Allen.😉 TYSON